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How to increase holiday bookings

SiteMinder

Booking a trip is evolving into a metrics-driven process as travellers assess a combination of star ratings, consumer review scores, and price. Use travel comparison sites Travel comparison sites have been instrumental in empowering consumers, and usage in the UK is high.

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Hotels under pressure to respond as OTA competition for guests lead gen explodes — SHR Group’s Hotel Industry Trends Report 2024

Hotel Speak

Increased bidding on key search terms, including ‘brand searches’ that identify particular hotels, has sparked a sudden increase in cost-per-click, with Google Ads rising 62.5% In the travel arena, a metasearch engine pulls in data from lots of other websites to produce its own results for consumer queries. from $0.16

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Real Estate Digital Marketing – 12 Tactics to Drive Leads

MediaBoom

A proper strategy connects real estate professionals with their desired audience, fostering relationships and guiding consumers through their property journey. Video Marketing The popularity of apps like TikTok illustrates how much consumers adore watching videos. Creativity with storytelling is rewarded with video.

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Marketing Strategies for Restaurants – Weighing the Pros and Cons of User Generated Content

Horizon Hospitality

PROS Low Financial Cost Online marketing has been dominated by cost-per-click advertising campaigns. Creating hashtags and making it easy for diners to leave reviews is simple and costs nothing to restaurants. User Generated Content is a welcome respite from these technical and often costly social media ads.

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Google Ads Strategy – Strengthen it 3 Ways!

All Things Hospitality

Videos are a great way to tell a story about your brand or to let consumers know about the benefits of using your product. According to Google, “Landing page experience is Google Ads’ measure of how well your website gives people who click your ads exactly what they’re looking for – quickly and effortlessly.

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13 ways to attract more direct bookings for your hotel

Cloudbeds

Hotels can bid on metasearch advertising placements and pay when consumers click on the ad. Metasearch differs from OTAs in that you can direct travelers back to your website to drive direct bookings, and it works on a non-commission model; instead, you pay a cost per click (CPC).

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Retargeting Ads – Bring Paying Customers Back

MediaBoom

Some common analytics people consider are cost per click or return on ad spend. Cost per click is a measurement of how much each click costs you on average. If you’re noticing the cost is too high, this is an indicator that your retargeting campaign needs to be adjusted.